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Hopefully the title got your attention. Obviously I'm not serious but there is no logic with my problem so that can only points towards a mysterious entity within my mobo Problem: If I shut down my Pc overnight or for some long period of time. It will not turn on again If I turn it off briefly, it will boot again if without issue. I have bridged the pins on the 24 pin connector and confirm the PSU is supplying power. The only way I get get it to turn on is not based on any logic, connections, electronic components. It based on random luck without any input from myself. I will attempt to turn it on numerous times, just mashing the power button. Nothing happens, I try again 10 minutes later, an hour later, 2 hours later. Nothing! Then when I'm not even in the same room as the pc, it will boot by itself! also take note I have confirmed the problem is not the switch itself. (I have also bridged these pins to confirm it will not start like that that) PC: Asus Prime X470 Pro Ryzen 3700X G Skill 32GB 3600Mhz 2070 Super Samsung Evo 1TB SSD I have tried everything, full disassemble, reassemble with only the basic hardware, confirm connections, test power on main cables. But what is comes down to is the mobo will not boot until a random time that it feels like it. My only idea could be something to do with a capacitor, perhaps not charged enough? who knows. I don't want to buy a new motherboard as it works perfectly when it's turned on. I just don't turn it off anymore. but sometimes it just happens and I can't use my PC What would the next point to troubleshoot, test with multi meter? Any real advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Hello, I have an ASUS PRIME B450-PLUS motherboard, the current bios version on it is 3211 from 08/10/2021. I’m using an AMD processor and an NVMe SSD as a boot drive. I think this should be enough info, but if it’s not, tell me about it and I’ll update this post. What happened? I wanted to update to Windows 11, I downloaded the pc health check app from Microsoft to check if I can. It said that I had to have TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled. I went into bios and turned on the fTPM, I left bios, booted into windows everything worked as it did before. The next thing to turn on was secure boot, but I couldn’t find it in bios. When I checked in msinfo32 it said that secure boot was unsupported. I thought that I may need to buy a new motherboard, but before doing so, I got an idea that maybe updating the bios to a newer version would bring secure boot with it. I get the latest bios on a USB drive, I update it, but before that, a message appears to turn off fTPM. So I do, I reason that if I didn't turn on windows BitLocker or set any passwords everything would be fine. The bios update goes smoothly. And when I try to boot into windows I get to the logo and spinning dots in a circle, they stop after a while and that’s it. What did you try to do? Restarted my computer a hundred times. Turned fTPM on and off a hundred times. I can't downgrade to a previous bios. Sometimes it shows a repairing windows message, but the spinning dots stop just as they do without it. I also tried taking the drive out and plugging it into another computer via some cheap drive housing. Both Windows and macOS can’t see the drive. It may be the fault of the housing I got for the drive but when plugged in, the blue light turns on and after a while the housing gets warm. Even when my boot drive is out and I only plug in a windows installer on a usb the same problem persists. Sometimes it shows the first menu of the installer but keyboard and mouse don't work and I can't do anything except turning off my computer. What solutions do you seek? If possible I’d like to know how to get the drive to be bootable again with all the data on it. If that's not possible I would like to at least format it and do a fresh install. Maybe bios on my motherboard is bad and I should buy a new motherboard. I have no other ideas, and I don’t want to pay a lot of money for recovering data, even tho I presume the problem is with bios and ssd external housing. Pls help

Hello Forum, Months ago the motherboard of one my laptops (ASUS F555L) got broken (I was almost 100% sure about that after t-shooting but I took the laptop to an authorized repair shop and it was confirmed). The repair shop offered to replace the board for ~900 BGN (around 500$) which was ridiculous given the fact that I bought the laptop (brand new) for 700 BGN (around 390$). After some searching I found a replacement board with even better processor for just 140$. After months of waiting I finally got the board, replaced it and the laptop was back to life (almost). The only thing that wasn't working was the display, however I was able to use an external display without a problem. I figured that maybe this was some sort of driver issue so I started downloading new drivers for the new board (ASUS X555LD). Everything was fine until I've decided that upgrading the BIOS will be also a good idea.... At the moment the laptop will power UP and that's it - no Windows, no BIOS, no image - just a black screen (the same way like it used to be before replacing the board). I'm not even 100% sure if nothing happens or just the display is not working... I was reading that there's a way to flash a new BIOS from a USB drive but I'm not sure if I'd be able to do this with this board. Furthermore I'm not even able to take out the CMOS battery from the motherboard because it doesn't have one. For the update I was using firmware and tools from the ASUS' website and before the restart of the machine everything was fine - I also received a message that the update was successful. P.S. I'm aware that this ASUS series are quite crappy but my mom was using the machine in order to run very lite software products and it was doing the job just fine.

Hello guys! Need help! Just built my new PC. Built it today. Was working fine for an hour or two. I instaled some programs and games, shut it down and restart it multiple times, no problem at all. At once, I was listening some music on spotify wile doing some update for Gigabyte App Center and the PC started to lag and there were a bugging noise. I could control the mouse, so I shut down Spotify. Was still bugging so I try to restart it using the Start menu in Windows. I selected "Instal update and restart". The PC shut down and never restart completely. The fans were runing and I had a red LED indicating that the CPU was working, but I never recived any video signal. My Razer chroma keyboard and Naga mouse never light up. So I shut it down using the star button. Since that, it only does that (fans running, red LED for CPU, but no signal). I have some RGB's on my Mobo, it flash for a fraction of a second when I try to start the system. My hardware: Gigabite AB-B350 Gaming 3 Ryzen 1500x Corsair LPX (2x8 go 3000) GTX 650 (waiting to buy a RX 580...) EVGA Supernova 650w 80+ gold Samsung evo 850 250 go SSD I tried to unplug everything, cmos reset, moving the ram around, unplugued almost everyting that is not needed for booting... etc. What can I do? Thx for your help!

I have a custom built PC that has been booting normally for a long time after its completion, but suddenly after I turn it on, I am prompted to the bios, as it refuses to boot into windows. Just to be clear, all of my components are displaying as they should, including my m.2 where windows is installed on. I attempted the usual enable/disable secure boot and csm thingamajig with no success. I then cleared the cmos by taking the battery out and using a screw driver to connect both jumper pins, no success. I then resorted to installing a new copy of Windows on the same drive as the other, possibly corrupted, Windows, which didn't work, as whenever the installation process was finished and the "Your PC will restart in 10, 9..." message appears, it restarts, and I'm back at the "Choose your language" purple background part. In other words, an endless installation loop. Specs: TUF Z370-Plus i5 8600k 16gb ddr4 Viper ra RX 580 (Although I removed it for battery access) If you have any more questions about specs, I will answer. Thank you,

Specs: GA-78LMT-S2 rev 1.0 - BIOS Version F2 AMD Athlon II 64 x2 3.4GHz Crucial 480GB BX500 SSD WD Blue 500GB HDD Well, I've been dealing with this for a week already as that was when my SSD arrived. I've already tested almost everything, and I keep going into walls. So, this is what has happened, the long story, if you want the summary, go down. So, the SSD arrives, happily I plug it in with my SATA cable and SATA Power. Then I plug my W10 USB and go into bios, I boot from the USB. When I go to install Windows 10 on the SSD: Or something in that vicinity. So, I figured: Oh right, when I installed Windows 10 in my HDD I installed in IDE (I didn't know about that before really, I looked it up). So, I googled how to change IDE/RAID HDD to AHCI, and I did it, succesfully. Then I went to install Windows 10 on my SSD, and ta-da, I did, everything went smoothly and no errors. But then, I tried to boot from it, and oh - surprise, it got stuck at the "Verifying DMI Data" screen. So, this is an old computer, I understand, but I think that this problem I'm encountering shouldn't be one. So, after this I googled "Windows 10 SSD stuck at Verifying DMI Data", and it said something about remapping the MBR or remaking it, so I downloaded EaseUs and did it, but still, I can't get the SSD to boot to Windows, no matter what I do. I've already tried every SATA port, different SATA cables, still no succes. I can use the SSD as another drive, but that's not what I wanted it for, I wanted to have everything on here, system-wise, and save photos/videos/movies, etc in the HDD. Anyone have any ideas of what I could try? I've not given up yet, but I'm about to, I'm just assuming by now the hardware is old and that's just that, but for some reason it doesn't make sense to me yet. Summary SSD Arrives, plug it in, can't install Windows 10 Chance IDE to AHCI from BIOS, can install Windows 10. Can't boot into Windows 10 - dayum. Reconstruct MBR, still can't boot to Windows 10 - dobledayum. What do? I'm begging you, I just wanted this drive to be my main system drive, but can't seem to accomplish it.

So I'm repairing my grandparents PC and though I'd upgrade the drives to a faster SSD. I've installed Win 10 using other PC (It would take ages on the old 775 PC) and now I'm trying to figure out how to boot. Bios detects SSD, tried IDE/SCSI modes, native/legacy modes nothing worked. Should I rather reinstall the Windows using the 755 socket PC? Also maybe installing MOBO drivers using the other PC could help? (Dont really know if the system has to have installed SATA drivers or not to boot..)

Hi So I have a Samsung np-rv509-s01hu laptop, which is only able to boot sometimes. The problem is, that the winchester isn't start to spin up, so the windows logo is there, but nothing happens. Tried with ssd, fresh windows, but shows the same issue (btw installing a new system on this machine is a whole another story) After a restart, it may boot, but more likely to not. Then try again and again, and then the windows automatic repair stuff tries to start, but that can't neither. But after a couple of minutes of trying, it boots up, and working, like it should. Now I'm trying to install an update the windows, but I can't, because it's just refuse to boot all the time, and when it finally does, it shows the windows update error popup. Anybody has the solution for this? Thanks

I bought the Gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming Motherboard with the Ryzen 7 2700x a few days ago. I put the PC together and until now everything worked more or less. Except for this problem I have posted here: Today I tried one last time fixing the usb 2.0 problem by installing all software that came with the motherboards installation cd. There also was a software on this cd called something like Gigabyte tools of which I foolishly installed all. After the required reboot my pc wouldn't boot at all anymore. I even disconnected all drives from the motherboard with no luck. I couldn't even get into the bios anymore. When I start the PC it boots up around 3 times always showing an cpu red light and after that it boots again with an vga red light. I disconnected the pc from the power outlet, waited for 20 min, turned it on and suddenly t works again. Does anybody know what could cause such a problem? Is the motherboard defect? Thanks in advance!!

Not sure if this is the right place to post it but im kinda desperate for help. had some trouble with my audio via obs and started wondering around on their forums and found an admin post (dont have a link sadly) wich said to download a audio virtulisation program with a link. site looked trustworthy so i installed it, rebooted the pc and everything was still fine. suddenly had a black screen my fans turned off but my hdd was still going. so i unplugged the power and powered it up again. same thing happens, screen stays black HDD is spinning and the fans stay off. but what i dont understand is that my motherboard lights are on. does anyone have a clue on what might be the issue?

I built this about a week ago and it was working properly until just now. The board is a TUF B365M-PLUS GAMING board as mentioned in the title. I tried to turn it on just now but theres no video output after the startup bios screen. The liquid cooler fans and the lights of the ram turned on but not the 4 casing fans. I used the fan's controller to turn it on and they did turned on but they shut off the stuff that was initially on. I pressed the power button for a few seconds to shut it off and it stayed like this until now. The led light should should be cycling through the colours when nothing is wrong. I searched the whole Internet but I can't find anything related to this problem in this board. I really hope u guys can help me ??

Hi there, Let me start out by saying I'm completely dumbfounded, frustrated, and totally lost at this point. I'd also like to note I've tried/looked at all the steps here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-ste... Now then, onto the problem. My computer was randomly crashing during gaming, I didn't think much of it but recently I decided to get a bigger case (thought maybe lack of airflow contributed). So I get my new 750D and I'm all excited and happy putting it together and managing the crap out of all my cables. Get everything all neat and organized and try to boot....no dice. Before I move on, here's what "everything" is: -i5 4690K (Water cooled with Kraken X41) -EVGA GTX 980 FTW (Water cooled with Kraken X41) -EVGA GTX 980 FTW (Water cooled with Kraken X41) -Corsair AX860 850W Platinum PSU -32GB G.Skill Ripjaws 1600MHz Memory -512GB Samsung m.2 PCI-e SSD -Asus Z-97A Motherboard -Corsair Obsidian 750D -3 140mm Radiators Other junk: -Each GPU Rad is cooled with two 140mm static pressure fans in push/pull -CPU Rad is cooled with one 140mm static pressure fan in push -Each GPU block contains a small 70mm fan to cool the card -Five additional case fans (12 fans total) Now that that's out of the way...more details! Everything was working fine in my previous case (h440), outside of the random occasional crash. Once I moved everything over, as I mentioned before, once powered on I would get no video output (and only half of my fans spin up..but that's a different issue). Frustrated, but I noticed the CPU POST LED was on, indicating an inability to boot properly. No idea why though, I remember setting everything up properly. Still, I start troubleshooting. Away with all of my cable management I was so proud of, away with all the happiness and sunshine. What I have at this point is a motherboard on a box with nothing plugged into it. I reset the CMOS and I begin. First I add the cpu and a heatsink. Powers on, fan spins up, pesky CPU LED turns off. Awesome! Should be able to get to the bios by plugging in directly to the MoBo, yeah? Nope. Ok, fine. I'll add my ssd. Nope. Ram? Nope? Ok, ok. Fine, I'll add my GPU and plug into that. Nope, but oh hey, the CPU post light is back on...that's certainly not good. Still no video output. That's pretty much the extent of it. No matter what I do, I cannot get a splash screen or anything. HDMI/Displayport/Different displays/Different combinations of plugging things in and out of my motherboard..nada. I have no clue what to do at this point. I don't even know what's broken. Realistically, I should be able to get to a BIOS screen with very few parts plugged in, no? Especially if I try plugging directly into the motherboard and bypassing a GPU. Anybody have any thoughts?

Hello guys I got a new intel i7 4790k cpu and cant boot the system. But i can boot the system with my 4770k with my Mainboard is Asus maximus vi hero z87 - bios ver 1603 So what could be the problem ? I did Changing ram slots, Upadating bios, Complete unplug hardwares and re-plug, Default bios settings, Remove CMOS battery. What should i do now ? Still i cant boot with my new CPU ? Could be CPU is broken ?

I am in the process of ripping my parent's CDs and DVDs, and i thought it would be a bit faster, if i had a few more optical drives in my system - no problem. Found som spares, but when i plug a secondary optical drive in and try to boot, it just tells me to select proper boot device. I went into the BIOS and found that my boot drive is still on top of the boot priority list. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it? I'm using a MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard with an SSD as boot drive (OCZ Agility) along with a Western Digital Blue and Western Digital Black for storage and of course the optical drive which is already in my system.

like the title says I can't boot without a secondary drive. I have tried windows startup repair and it didn't work the 3 times I tried. Thanks!

so i was moving files to and external hard drive when windows stopped responding left it it would not start to respond after exating every option i was forced to restart on doing this i got an error saying problem with drive and says press any key to continue i do this and it takes me to the bios or something i exit and try booting in many ways dont work i try to use windows install disc to re install windows that did to work just gave me an error saying that windows registry files are corrupt or missing?? i try to launch in many of the ways aging like safe mode did not work so im now using the disc again but i wiped all date form hard drive and re installing windows 7 to see if it fixes if it does not il reply saying fail please can some one help

loaded into my usb with lili creator and unetbootin, and they both show me this error. help?

Here i was just testing my new build, i was testing the cpu, ram and motherboard. But theres a problem, it can go to bios but cant boot to windows. I have tried other ram lying around but still cant. Can someone help me... Specs: i5 3670k Corsair vengence Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) GA-Z87X-UD3 Gigabyte gtx770